Chapter 107 Choice and Dispute

"Keep it a secret, as long as you can."

Calvin also put away his cutlery, then stood up and said.

The two people behind him also stood up and followed him out.

"I don't have the final say on this matter, but the old men in the family are handling it. They have much more to worry about than us."

Golden and Tariq had no objection to this statement, as they had both served in the company as champion swordsmen.

During the time they were close guards for the Grand Master, they also understood how much work pressure these Grand Masters were under on a daily basis.

"I noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with your gauntlet?" Tariq decided to shift the topic to something lighter.

"Well, in fact, it's not just the gauntlet."

Calvin looked at the position of his hand in annoyance, and gently opened and closed the armor and electromagnetic muscles on his hand with the help of the power servo. The touch from the latter clearly told Calvin:

This armor is a little small for his rapidly growing body.

He shrugged awkwardly and said, "As you know, my body is still growing. Like everyone in this stage, I also have the troubles of this stage..."

"Like a boy who doesn't know how to ask his father for new shoes?"

Tariq took over Calvin's words. But there was a clear sense of joking in his words.

"Well said, but don't say it again next time." Calvin rolled his eyes and decided not to continue discussing this embarrassing topic.

He quickened his pace, leaving Tariq behind, and began to explain to Golden the next arrangements for the Grey Knights.

The two behind him also smiled at each other after seeing Calvin's actions, and then followed.

After reaching the periphery of the Rust Belt, the Black Ship finally got rid of the pirates who were following like hyenas.

The latter's pursuit finally stopped at a distance of 10 astronomical units outside the asteroid belt.

After getting rid of these threats, the Noble and the Dirty focused their work on internal cleaning while sailing.

After all, under the influence of these uncertain factors, the Black Ship will not be able to ensure that it can stably enter the state of subspace navigation in the next voyage.

After the Grey Knights where Calvin was as a support force participated in the initial cleanup operation, they never participated in the rest of the operation.

Under the further evaluation of the commanders on the bridge, the threat of these orcs who have been separated from the organization and organization is decreasing at an unreasonable speed.

Whether in terms of IQ or fighting will, these orcs are rapidly degenerating in the direction of savages.

This phenomenon also further confirmed Calvin's conjecture.

This threat that has dropped to the level of public security incidents is enough for the mortal troops on the Black Ship to deal with.

No one wants to trouble these angels of the Emperor because of such things. Calvin no longer cares too much about it.

His energy is now mainly focused on the discussion with Constantine and others. They have a lot of differences on the choice of the next course.

The alien judge Mawei has been in a bad state recently, and the reason is naturally because of the expensive cost of large-scale memory cleanup caused by the participation of the Grey Knights in the war.

But under the joint reminder of Constantine and Calvin, the stingy fat man still forced himself to participate in the following discussion.

According to Calvin and others, they hope that the black ship can go to the nearest assembly point of the Inquisition, or report to the higher level and contact the nearest troops of the Holy Hammer Order.

The latter option has been executed and is waiting for a reply, while the execution of the former has caused some disagreements with the mechanical priest Constantine.

The priest insisted on waiting outside the nearby section defense node to wait for the exploration fleet or other units from Mars to come to pick up.

Before seeing these people he could trust, he had become a frightened bird and did not trust any local forces.

It seems that the abnormal arrival of the exploration fleet of Graya before has aroused the high vigilance of the Martian mechanical priest who has a confidential mission.

The decision-makers, including Calvin, also reversed this afterwards, but failed to find the place where Constantine's whereabouts were leaked.

As the details of the action were traced back one by one, Constantine slowly fell silent.

After all the details of the possibilities were ruled out one by one, those possibilities that were originally impossible became realities that everyone was unwilling to face.

Because the possibility they were about to face was that this action had been noticed by someone with ulterior motives since the beginning;

Or, there was a more cruel possibility, that is, there were some people inside Mars who had reached some deals with local forces such as the Grey Forge World.

The former speculation made everyone worry about whether they could return to the Solar Star Region safely on the next journey;

And once the latter became a reality, it meant that all the actions of everyone were betrayed by the big man far away on Mars, and were one-way and transparently displayed to the local forces here.

And the nature of this extremely serious betrayal was extremely bad, and the other party would definitely not allow anyone to return to Terra alive to accuse him.

In the next three days of the voyage, the three decision-makers silently thought about their next destination.

They know that no matter which speculation turns out to be a reality, there will not be much time and opportunity left for them to struggle for survival.

On the fifth day after the black ship sailed out of the asteroid belt, the remnants of the orcs on the ship had been cleared to a polar level.

The engine room, fuel tank, weapons array and the most severely damaged ammunition compartment have all been confirmed safe after repeated key screenings.

Until this time, the black ship finally had the basic conditions for subspace navigation.

Without the Manzeville Point of the galaxy as a gravitational bow, the black ship that wants to enter the state of subspace navigation can only rely on its own engine to accelerate slowly. This process takes about 3 days.

In this seemingly long but actually short period of time, the choice of the next target for Black Ship's leap finally aroused a fierce conflict among the three people at the decision-making level.

"I don't agree with your plan. In any case, the Holy Hammer Order is not the standing armed force of the Alien Tribunal and Mars! Without the constraints of any agreement, returning to our order of operations is our top priority! You We have been involved in this muddy water enough, and I don’t want the precious power that the Emperor has given me to be damaged in any way for the benefit of Mars during the next trip!”

Calvin bluntly refuted Father Constantine's proposal to wait for Mars.

In previous deductions, they no longer trusted Mars' reaction.

Calvin even suspected that if the black ship really followed the agreement and jumped out of the subspace at the predetermined location, he would have doubts about whether the people it faced would be friends or foes.

This was precisely the point where the priest could not refute the most. He silently insisted on his opinion.

But as the true master of the Black Ship, Judge Mavey's attitude has inevitably moved closer to Calvin's opinion.

To the public, Ma Wei cannot accept that the power of any brother unit is lost on his ship, let alone the Gray Knights, a precious asset of the entire human race.

If these Astartes are really damaged due to this private work, even if he survives in the end, he will not be able to escape internal accountability and purge.

Privately speaking, this favor transaction has actually ended after Operation River Valley on the planet Oman.

As the client and employer, Constantine has no reason to keep Calvin and others, let alone Mavey as the middleman and broker?

But a mission is a mission, whether it is Calvin’s mission or Constantine’s mission. They are not allowed to flinch even at this time.

The meeting broke up in a stalemate atmosphere, and this was the third time these people had met in just one day.

The temporary friendship between the three people with different backgrounds on the black ship, which was originally a result of their tacit cooperation, finally collapsed due to the conflict of interests represented by their different positions.

Black ship time, evening. Calvin, who has completed daily training and armor maintenance, is on his way back to the station. The unit's daily holy rituals are waiting for him to preside over as the leader.

In the silent march, there was nothing but the heavy footsteps of the Terminator itself, as heavy as a bell.

Calvin likes to think in this process of walking alone, thinking about his own meaning, and thinking about past gains and losses.

The communicator rang suddenly in his ear, and the chirping of electronic sounds broke his thoughts.

Inquisitor Mavey's voice came out from the device's microphone with some distortion, and he returned to his original polite tone, which made Calvin a little uncomfortable:

"Dear Judge Calvin, please come to the bridge. The priest has made a new decision."

The tall Terminator armor in the light gray corridor stopped his heavy steps. After a few seconds of silence, his figure returned to the original route in the doubtful eyes of the mortal crew members who were standing against the wall and prepared to give way. Walking towards the bridge in the distance with the same heavy steps as before.

This time the discussion was initiated by the other party.

And this conversation was also his last show of patience.

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